A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
32989 - Argonne - Clermont in ruins Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
01078 - Rubescourt - Front line (Somme department, Picardie) Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
3219 - Chevreux 1917 - at the front line (Cheuvreux?)
23282 - Tahure - Attelage Boche
22032 - Douai en ruines
22942 - Nieuport - Zouaves (Nieuwpoort, Flandre-Occidentale)
22887 - Nieuport (Nieuwpoort, Flandre-Occidentale)
26580 - Vosges - Skieurs allemands
A descriptive essay on the city of Edinburgh, and in particular of Edinburgh Castle.
Compilation of amateur footage including a comedy sketch about a dentist's waiting room and activities around Castle Toward.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sightseeing in Edinburgh where they visit the castle and make an appearance on stage at the Playhouse Cinema.
Scenes around the city of Edinburgh in the late 1930s.
The children of Rosehearty Primary School join with older members of the village to record memories of the village in the early half of the century, illustrated by a varied montage of photographs. Inc...
Inverness as a focal point for Highland life past and present: from St. Columba and King Bruce to the Loch Ness Monster and the World Pipe Band Championships. (20 mins)
Laurel and Hardy visit Edinburgh in 1932, arriving at Waverley Station, going to the North British Hotel and finally, visiting the Castle.
A historical survey of Dumbarton Castle and its environs with commentary and on-the-spot narrative by local historian Dr. I. M. Macphail. [Made as a student film for Central London Polytechnic.]